154School Science and Mathematics

TABLE 3

Alloy Solvent System Time Chromogenic Constituents Color

(hrs.) Reagent
Coinage Group II li Dimethyl- Nickel d. pink
glyoxime Copper brown
German Group II U Dimethyl- Nickel d. pink
Silver glyoxime Copper brown
Monel Metal Group II U Dimethyl- Nickel d. pink
glyoxime Copper brown
Type Metal Group II-B 5 Hydrogen Tin tan
Sulfide Lead brown
Antimony orange
Solder Group II-B 5 Hydrogen Tin tan
Sulfide Lead brown
Arsenical Group II-B 4 Hydrogen Tin tan
Lead Sulfide Lead brown
Arsenic yellow
Duralumin Group II 2i Dimethyl- Iron brown
Group III-A 2i glyoxime Copper d. brown
(Multiple-Development) Hydrogen Aluminum red
Technique Sulfide
Alizarin
Manganese Group III-B 1 Dimethyl- Copper green
Bronze Group III-A U glyoxime Iron brown
(Multiple-Development) Alizarin Aluminum red
Technique Zinc violet
Cadmium Group II-B l Hydrogen Tin tan
Solder Group II li Sulfide Cadmium yellow7
(Multiple-Development)
Technique

A QUERY
Is the drying action of a towel due wholly to capillary effects in the minute
tubes and pores of the towel, these tubes and pores being formed by the inter-
lacing fibres of the towel which form extremely narrow conical capillary tubes?
preceding this capillary action there may be, of course, a mass sweeping action
of the water off the wiped article, but ultimately capillary action (and other
surface effects, e.g., adsorption) seem to be responsible for the drying of the
article, and this is an action we rarely try to explain.
JOHN SATTERLY
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada

A QUERY OF POSITION
Why so very often when one is dressing, does one find that on the floor the
right-foot shoe is on the left-hand side of the left-foot shoe? I am not left-handed
and I wonder whether this effect is just peculiar to me. Have others noticed the
same?
JOHN SATTERLY